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part of archi history courseTRANSCRIPT
EGYPTIAN BUILDINGS
THE BEGINNING OF ARCHITECTURE
TEMPLE OF ISIS - 285BC
STONE FIGURESAlso scattered throughout Egypt are stone figures. These figures could look like a tiger, a king, and eagle, or maybe even a mixture of both. Perhaps the best know stone figure of them all is the Sphinx. It is a figure of a kings head who is wearing the striped headcloth (nemes). His body is that of a lion.
TEMPLES
KARNAK
STATUES AND MONUMENTS
Also scattered throughout Egypt are stone figures. These figures could look like a tiger, a king, and eagle, or maybe even a mixture of both. Perhaps the best known stone figure of them all is the Sphinx.
THEBES -Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut (18th Dynasty, B.C. 1490-1468